Knowing the importance of care and services that include and welcome a spectrum of identities, Weiland staff provide consultation and training for clinicians, students, staff, faculty, and other community members to increase inclusivity and awareness.
Weiland Health Initiative Training Menu
Our mission is to promote mental health and wellness across the spectrum of gender identities and sexual orientations through education, training, and clinical services at Stanford and beyond.
A beginning step in understanding gender identity, practicing and explaining pronouns, and tips for gender inclusivity.
A discussion on the specific issues within interpersonal violence within queer and/or trans relationships.
An introduction to the difference between sex, sexuality, and gender. A beginning look at the use of identity terms, context of labels, and take-home points about inclusivity.
Have specific needs/questions? We can create a training/presentation for you!
A look at the specific mental health needs of LGBTQ+ folx in your community to inform services and programs.
An introduction to sexual orientation, sexual fluidity, and sexual practice, potentially covering topics such as attraction, kink, consensual non-monogamy, and asexuality.
Classes Taught By Weiland Staff
Want to get academic credit to learn more about sex, sexuality, gender, and wellness? Check out the following classes taught by Weiland staff.
Explore the intersection of queerness, sexuality and wellbeing. Learn skills and practices to associate queerness with thriving and flourishing. This course integrates empirical psychological and neuroscientific research, community history, and health psychoeducation to provide frameworks for exploration. An interactive structure supports the reflection and development of your relationship with self, community, and queerness. Offered in Fall and Spring Quarters.
Check out this 1-2 unit discussion-based class on sex literacy called Peer Education in Comprehensive Sexual Health (Wellness 191)! Come to learn and talk openly about anything and everything sex and sexual health-related, from pleasure and kink to birth control methods, and many topics in between. You will also have the opportunity to become a counselor and educator at Stanford’s Sexual Health Peer Resource Center (SHPRC). Offered in Fall, Winter & Spring Quarters.
Professional Training Opportunities
Learn more about Weiland's professional training opportunities here.
Each spring quarter, we offer a 10-week clinical rotation focused on providing psychotherapy to students across the spectrum of gender and sexual identities. This rotation is designed for our pre-doctoral psychology interns, as well as for other clinicians on staff who wish to improve their competence in this area. The rotation tends to be interactive, engaging and unconventional in its teaching techniques. Topics covered include:
- queer theory and identity development
- queer history
- queer family building
- kink/BDSM
- consensual non-monogamy/polyamory
- affirming language
- sexuality and faith
- trans identities
- interpersonal and sexual violence in queer relationships
- queer people of color
- bisexuality and pansexuality
If you are a health provider at Stanford and would like to improve your clinical and cultural competence working with gender and sexual diversity issues in your practice, please consider joining our Gender and Sexual Diversity Clinical Rotation. To learn more or inquire about joining, please email us here.
Weiland Health Initiative holds a biweekly multidisciplinary clinical consultation group that focuses on issues related to gender and sexual identities. Our group includes psychologists, social workers, psychology trainees, psychiatrists, and physicians. Our group offers a safe space for discussing cases, as well as a chance to work together with the aim of greater social justice and inclusivity on campus. It also provides an opportunity to reflect together on our own identities, and how they impact our work and worldviews.
Starting 2022 summer, Weiland will be providing a 3-day training series on Zoom focused on issues of sex, attraction, sexuality, and gender. Weiland staff will facilitate discussions focused on providing queer and gender-affirming care, identifying and managing personal attitudes and biases, and learning about best practices in serving queer communities. Participating clinicians will be eligible for 9 CE credits.
- We hope to expand the institute for community mental health provider soon!
Stanford’s Weiland Health Initiative, Stanford’s SHARE: Education Team, and the World Association for Sexual Health put on a free annual conference at Stanford for students, staff, clinicians, and community members. World Sexual Health Day centers sex positivity, social justice, and intersectionality. Feel free to peruse our past events to get a sense of our agenda and mission.
Workshops & Outreach
Weiland staff create and facilitate a range of workshops and conversations focusing on different communities, intersections, and issues within the LGBTQ+ community. If you would like to plan something similarly for your student organization/group, please email us or request an outreach.
Would your course, department, or program benefit from more knowledge around gender and sexual identities? Start the process by filling out the request form. We are excited to collaborate with you! We are available to offer presentations or workshops to audiences of any size.
Available Topics Include
- Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation 101
- Queer Inclusivity & Pronoun Practice
- LGBTQ Relationship Violence and Sexual Assault
- Queer Mental Health
- Making Your Workplace More LGBTQ Friendly & more!
Become a Weiland Health Associate!
As a member of the Weiland Health Initiative, the Weiland Health Associate is responsible for supporting the Weiland Health Initiative team as well as larger Stanford LGBTQ+ communities for a full academic year. While the WHA will be expected to prioritize the needs of the staff team and campus priorities, their programming should be open, flexible, and responsive to all community members. The bulk of their work should take the form of event programming, promotions, outreach and resource development, which may include: de-stress events, arts and creation initiatives, developing topical resource guides & brochures, and collaborating with other campus organizations to promote queer and trans health and wellness. The WHA must make programming accessible to people of color, disabled people and people with disabilities, low-income people, migrants and undocumented people, women, femmes, people of all faiths, and people from any other underrepresented identities who have been historically underserved.
- Compensation: $500 per quarter, $1500 for academic year
- Applicants of color, trans, nonbinary, queer applicants, applicants with disabilities, FLi applicants, international applicants, and immigrant applicants are encouraged to apply.
